Top "User-agent" questions

A user agent is a piece of software (a software agent) that acts on behalf of a user.

Detect IE version (prior to v9) in JavaScript

I want to bounce users of our web site to an error page if they're using a version of Internet …

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Auto detect mobile browser (via user-agent?)

How can I detect if a user is viewing my web site from a mobile web browser so that I …

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Determine a user's timezone

Is there a standard way for a web server to be able to determine a user's timezone within a web …

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What is the iPad user agent?

From what I gather, the iPad is using iPhone OS, but with a different screen resolution from the iPhone and …

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Get operating system info

I recently started wondering about sites like http://thismachine.info/ that get the user's operating system info. I have not …

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Setting user agent of a java URLConnection

I'm trying to parse a webpage using Java with URLConnection. I try to set up the user-agent like this: java.…

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How to get user agent in PHP

I'm using this JS code to know what browser is user using for. <script> document.write(navigator.appName); &…

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Changing user agent on urllib2.urlopen

How can I download a webpage with a user agent other than the default one on urllib2.urlopen?

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What is the iOS 5.0 user agent string?

What is the iOS 5.0 user agent string? Here is the iOS 4.0 user agent: What is the iPhone 4 user-agent?

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